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Dialog to Highlight Indian Content at Mumbai Event

Customer Update Seminar Also To Feature Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli, Expert in Technology & Intellectual Property, On WTO's TRIPS Agreement

MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (15 September 2003) -- Dialog, a Thomson (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today said that it will highlight its extensive portfolio of Indian news, research and intellectual property information available through its online services during a regional customer update seminar to be held here 17 September at the Hotel Marine Plaza.

The Mumbai event also will feature a presentation by Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli, an internationally recognised expert on intellectual property management issues. He will discuss the World Trade Organisation's recent Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and its impact on developing countries.

Professor Ganguli, a leading Indian patent attorney, is an advisor with Vision IPR, a Mumbai-based consulting firm specializing in management of intellectual property, information security and knowledge management. He also is a widely published author of numerous scholarly papers, articles and books, including the 2001 book Intellectual Property Rights — Unleashing the Knowledge Economy. He was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and in Germany and Canada.

"We're delighted that Professor Ganguli will join us for our regional customer update," said Stuart Doig, Dialog vice president for Asia Pacific and host of the 17 September event. "As the information industry's leading provider of intellectual property information, such as patent, trademark and domain name records from around the world, it is appropriate to have an expert of Professor Ganguli's stature help us understand how the WTO agreement is impacting the intellectual property management arena in India."

In addition to its vast and continuously updated reservoirs of intellectual property information, Dialog is also a leading global provider of news and current awareness services, and in-depth information services focused on science, technology and medical (STM) topics.

Indian-produced STM news and research are included in a number of Dialog services used worldwide.

Additionally, Dialog NewsRoom, an online service for businesses offered by Dialog, features an extensive portfolio of Indian content.

Dialog NewsRoom is a comprehensive collection of current news reports that offers single-search access to nearly 8,000 sources, including broadcast transcripts, newspapers, periodicals, newswires, trade and scholarly journals, and other sources, drawn from nearly 80 countries in English and 11 other languages.

Indian content available through Dialog NewsRoom includes many of the country's leading newspapers, periodicals and newswires. Examples include Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, India Today, Indo-Asian News Service, Statesman and the Times of India. Examples of specialty publications available through Dialog NewsRoom include the Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Indian Journal of Medical Research, among numerous others.

"India is an important market for us, both because of the customers we serve here and because of the locally sourced content," Doig said. "Through our information services, we're bringing the world's news and research to desktops across India. And we are taking Indian content to a global audience."

Added Doig: "We're contributing to the success of Indian businesses, both at home and around the world."

Dialog customers in India include many of the country's leading corporations, small and midsized companies, government agencies and academic institutions.

Dialog holds customer update seminars on a regular basis in key markets worldwide. They help knowledge managers and information professionals learn how to leverage recent product enhancements in Dialog services to help their businesses better harness information as an asset in a range of business and research pursuits.

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About Dialog and The Thomson Corporation

Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, the online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data brands — give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data. Information professionals and end-users at business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

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